KOSTANAI, Kazakhstan, June 12 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan, an oil-producing Caspian nation hit hard by the global recession, urged foreign companies on Friday to invest more of their profits locally to help diversify the economy.

KOSTANAI, Kazakhstan, June 12 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan expects three or four Islamic banks to set up operations in the former Soviet republic this year, central bank head Grigory Marchenko said on Friday.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev Holds a Meeting with Heads of the Government, Administration of the President, Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund and the Agency on Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Market and Financial Organizations Who Reported on the Course of Realization of the Anti-Recessionary Program.

International Conference "International Partnership as a Factor of Business Education Improvement" (8 June 2009 ã., Almaty) is devoted to a decade of cooperation of International Academy of Business (IAB) and the Higher School of Commerce (HEC, France).

Bob Woodward strolled pensively towards the impeccably set table by the window - the one with a clear view of the White House across Lafayette Square. Wearing a sober red tie and a spotless dark suit, the legendary Watergate-exposing journalist bore the faint traces of a frown.

ALMATY, June 4 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's financial regulator said on Thursday it had suspended several licenses issued to Astana Finance ASFI.KZ, a domestic lender which has announced plans to restructure its debt.

On May 29, 2009, the Media Club of PF «Center for Business Journalism «Bizmedia» has conducted its next meeting in the office of the Association of Pension Funds. Mr. Aidar Alibayev, Association's Chairman, participated in the meeting as a speaker.

LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna is not planning to issue bonds as part of efforts to restructure the defaulted debt of BTA bank BTAS.KZ, an advisor to the process said on Friday.

Contradicting earlier comments by a senior Kazakh official, Marcia Favale-Tarter -- who is advising Samruk as well as the Kazakh government -- told Reuters that BTA creditors should not hope to exchange its bonds or loans for those of the state fund.

Kazakhstan charged the former president of the national atomic power company of stealing state uranium assets yesterday, broadening an official campaign to uproot corruption in the resource-rich central Asian country.

TORONTO, May 27 (Reuters) - Shares of miner Uranium One (UUU.TO) plunged 38 percent on Wednesday after Kazakhstan said it was investigating past sales of the country's uranium assets to foreign companies.

ALMATY, May 27 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's security service said on Wednesday some of the country's uranium fields had been sold illegally to foreign firms by Kazakh state uranium company Kazatomprom, in a move certain to alarm investors.

ALMATY, May 20 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's second-biggest bank Kazkommertsbank (KKGByq.L) said on Wednesday it had no plans to restructure its debt following restructuring announcements from three other Kazakh lenders.